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This collection of Daniel Defoe's travel and historical writings brings together some of his best-loved and most ambitious works, together with others which reveal the extraordinary range of his intellectual interests. His Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain , which came out between 1724 and 1726, drew on Defoe's own travels throughout England and Scotland - often as a political agent and spy.

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Review of Volumes 1-4: 'The new Pickering and Chatto edition means that we at last have a modern and reliable edition. John McVeagh has used the first edition of 1724-6 as his copy text; has included the original maps; has provided extensive annotation both factual and textual; and he has also included the textual apparatus from the eighteenth-century edition in the form of Defoe's own indexes and original title pages for each of the three volumes. In addition, McVeagh has produced an extensive and very helpful index of his own... Under the general editorship of W R Owens and P N Furbank, Pickering and Chatto have produced an editorially sound edition of Defoe's Tour, something we have long needed. Furthermore, by its structuring this edition should also prove the raw material for a major advance in our understanding of Defoe's oeuvre in general and his more specific contribution to the geographical culture of the early eighteenth century.' - Robert Mayhew, Review due to appear in the Journal of Historical Geography

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Editorial board W R Owens is at the Open University P N Furbank is at the Open University Professor N H Keeble is at the University of Stirling Dr David Hayton is at the Queen's University of Belfast Dr Andrew Wear is at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Dr John McVeagh is at the University of Ulster

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